| 25-6713 |
Nebraska, ex rel. Isaac D. Koch v. District Court of Nebraska, Platte County |
Nebraska |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-law contract-clause dissolution-statute freedom-of-conscience remedy void-writ |
What harm must a void writ burden one with before a remedy obtains?
Whether unilateral dissolution statutes may be held repugnant to the contract cla… |
| 25-6687 |
Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law |
Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric… |
| 25-315 |
Silas Salyers, aka Silas Salyer v. Clifford B. Walker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn Walker |
Michigan |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-clause deed-ownership due-process equal-protection property-rights trespass-damages |
Whether the Michigan judiciary violated Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights by rendering legally impossible rulings regarding propert… |
| 25-140 |
Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
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contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause |
Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, where the di… |
| 25-38 |
Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
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contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts |
Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the parties… |
| 24-6934 |
Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud |
Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract violates the Contract Clause and Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces… |
| 23-1220 |
Building and Realty Institute of Westchester and Putnam Counties, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
contract-clause due-process housing-stability investment-expectations market-value property-rights rent-control takings takings-clause tenant-protection |
Whether the changes made by the HSTPA effect physical takings, and as applied takings, and violate both the Due Process and Contract Clauses of the Co… |
| 23-801 |
Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts |
Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim… |
| 23-589 |
Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. |
Maryland |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law |
Whether the Maryland Orphans' Court violated the decedent's and sole-legatee's equal-protection, due-process, property-interest, contract-clause, raci… |
| 23-383 |
Karen C. Yeh Ho v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause contracts due-process equal-protection foreclosure mortgage-modification takings |
Whether Respondent voided and denial of permanent streamline mortgage modification agreement is a violation of United States Constitution |
| 22-948 |
Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County Medical Care Facility, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-law contract-clause due-process earned-compensation equal-protection paid-time-off tax-evasion wage-and-hour |
Did the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division violate the US Constitution Contract Clause when it used the Michigan P.W.F.B.A st… |
| 22-6529 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
Delaware |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy commerce-clause compact-clause constitutional-law contract-clause corporate-dissolution interstate-commerce standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a corporation chartered for interstate commerce can be involuntarily dissolved and wound up in a state court other than the charter state |
| 22-476 |
Fraternal Order of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, D.C. Police Union v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-law contract-clause due-process impairment-of-contract police police-discipline takings |
Whether the removal of police officers' disciplinary rights contained in their collective bargaining agreement substantially impairs that agreement in… |
| 22-5948 |
Brett W. Cormier v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution |
Did the State of Florida violate Art. I, Sect. 10 of the United States Constitution when it impaired the obligation of petitioner's contracts by charg… |
| 21-1084 |
Janet Heltzel, et al. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
contract-clause due-process executive-power monument monument-preservation property-rights public-opinion restrictive-covenant takings |
Does the Obligation of Contracts Clause prohibit the abrogation of the Commonwealth's agreement to preserve a monument? |
| 21-7043 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Allstate Insurance Co. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial interlocutory-decision procedural-due-process public-confidence standing |
Does the judiciary's failure to provide a fair trial and hearing violate due process and erode public confidence in the courts? |
| 21-999 |
Joe Blessett v. Texas Office of the Attorney General, Galveston County Child Support Enforcement Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearfield-trust-doctrine commerce-clause contract-clause cooperate-federalism due-process sovereign-immunity state-agency title-iv-d |
Does the State Title IV-D Agency operate as a commercial enterprise for profit with the United States under Cooperative Federalism to be subjected to … |
| 21-809 |
Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-01 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights contract-clause due-process eviction-moratorium property-rights standing strict-scrutiny takings takings-clause |
Whether a Legislature's Closing of Landlord-Tenant Court Violates Access to the Court |
| 21-801 |
Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
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civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code |
Do animal 'adoption' laws conflict with the Constitution's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting? |
| 21-289 |
Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation |
Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with equal-justice |
| 20-1466 |
Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity |
Whether placing the burden of proof on the plaintiffs regarding the reasonableness and necessity of a legislation that impaired a public contract conf… |
| 20-1145 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
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appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether Justice Barrett must accept and grant this Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus |
| 20-1112 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis |
Whether Justice Barrett must enforce the Supreme Court's stare decisis precedents prohibiting repudiation of government-issued patent grants |
| 20-6160 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing |
Did the court of Appeals decision create a conflict between its decision and the decision of other appellate courts on the same issues? |
| 20-560 |
Brian Sullivan, et al. v. Nassau County Interim Finance Authority, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause emergency-measure government-contracts less-deferential-standard reasonable-and-necessary state-impairment wage-freeze |
Whether the Court should re-examine the 'reasonable and necessary' test, applied under a 'less deferential' standard, when a State impairs its own con… |
| 19-8750 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. SAP America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitution-of-the-united-states constitutional-impairment contract-clause due-process equal-protection impairment-of-contract judicial-malfeasance patent-contract patent-contract-grant stare-decisis |
Whether the inventor's government-issued patent contract grant is protected by the Constitution of the United States |
| 19-8707 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the USPTO/PTAB and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants |
| 19-1314 |
Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille |
New Hampshire |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
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constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights |
Whether the NH statute governing tenant eviction or the NH Supreme Court's interpretation of that statute resulted in an unlawful impairment of a cont… |
| 19-1308 |
Bernard Morello, et al. v. Seaway Crude Pipeline Company, LLC |
Texas |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-limitations contract contract-circumvention contract-clause due-process eminent-domain highest-and-best-use judicial-authority judicial-review just-compensation legislative-limitations property-rights takings |
Whether eminent domain can be used as mere pretext to rewrite the parties' own prior bargains, or otherwise circumvent existing obligations in a previ… |
| 19-8059 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause |
Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judiciary,… |
| 19-8029 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty to the Queen of Englan… |
| 19-7905 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason |
Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute… |
| 19-6991 |
Lei Ke v. Drexel University |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata |
Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to recognize the d… |
| 18-9847 |
Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause |
Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh… |
| 18-9226 |
Anne A. Sears v. Lucas D. Bottorff, et al. |
Tennessee |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-checks contract-clause due-process elderly-protection judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-police-power |
What is the minimum level of judicial checks and balances constitutionally required of the judiciary and each judge when reviewing litigation involvin… |
| 18-9167 |
Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process |
Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existen… |
| 18-8188 |
Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution |
Whether the plea agreement affirmed by the lower tribunal judgment violated the contract and due process clauses of the United States Constitution |
| 18-198 |
Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law |
Whether a plaintiff should be allowed to plead facts related to a collective bargaining agreement and administrative regulations under §1981 and Title… |